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[Redhood]

yay this makes me a very happy panda! Hope it runk ok on 1080 on nvidia 570

 

[sp3000]

We also can't lose sight of the broader applications of the technology either: cloth simulation, grass and underbrush, leaves on trees, better rope simulation, and all of these things without significant interpenetration issues. Next gen worlds are going to look and be a hell of a lot more dynamic.

Wasn't all this already done by PhysX or Cryengine. cloth sim has been in games since 2007

 

[ColonelColon]

Wind tears through a perilous chasm, whipping Lara’s ponytail to the side. With TressFX Hair, each one of her thousands of individualized strands of hair are constantly changing with the windspeed.

Stranded on a beach in driving rain, Lara’s hair hangs heavy and matted with TressFX Hair; the real-time physics calculation accounts for both moisture and wind.

Next gen hair is here.

 

[xenist]

The hair really doesn't suit Lara's low-res model in that image.

It is the dissonance caused by a high end PC feature being enabled on a model designed to work with current console hardware. I can't wait for the new consoles to come out so we can finally stop with the trickery and actually play with high poly models.

On the other hand, am I a graphics whore for this making me buying Tomb Raider certain, just so I can how TressFX runs on my Nvidia card?

 

[Kaako]

Can we also get some decent AA on every single strand of her hair please?

 

[Sibylus]

Wasn't all this already done by PhysX or Cryengine. cloth sim has been in games since 2007

It has indeed, but what's exciting is that this doesn't seem to be the sort of proprietary suite that sees very little traction. If AMD are content with licensing it, it could be plugged into a number of different engines and systems.

 

[Perkel]

hair looks amazing but model sure is fugly with fugly textures

 

[DieH@rd]

WHY ARE THEY NOT RELEASING FRAKING VIDEO ALREADY?

 

[derFeef]

WHY ARE THEY NOT RELEASING FRAKING VIDEO ALREADY?

Exactly.

 

[Kaako]

hair looks amazing but model sure is fugly with fugly textures

All I know is that Dreamfall Chapters better include this technology!

 

[nextgeneration]

Really not sure why some of you are getting so amped up over this.

Because of the implications it has. For one, we may possibly have a standard now, so no more physx. This can be applied to other things besides just hair. Cloth physics, flowing grass, etc.

Wind tears through a perilous chasm, whipping Lara’s ponytail to the side. With TressFX Hair, each one of her thousands of individualized strands of hair are constantly changing with the windspeed.

This makes me happy.

Stranded on a beach in driving rain, Lara’s hair hangs heavy and matted with TressFX Hair; the real-time physics calculation accounts for both moisture and wind.

Music to my ears.

 

[GoncaloCCastro]

That's some fine looking hair...hope this works well with my 570.

 

[PaulExcellent]

I would love to see a Dragon Ball Z videogame with this.

 

[derFeef]

Love the new thread title, lol.

 

[golem]

I didnt even know games actually had PhysX support.. I have a nvidia card and cant remember the last time it made much of a difference in a game?

 

[Xyber]

I really hope this will work good on my 6950, but I have my doubts since it lacks in the DirectCompute department IIRC.

 

[derFeef]

I didnt even know games actually had PhysX support.. I have a nvidia card and cant remember the last time it made much of a difference in a game?

If you see floaty particles that look out of place and overdone, it's PhysX.

 

[Router]

"Here's our new amazing tech for physics and movement in a video game... Look at these pictures"

Call me when there's video.

 

[DieH@rd]

Their blog crashed...

 

[rakhir]

I've spent A LOT of time playing with main character hair in Alice: Madness Returns, but this is even better. I can't wait for TR now.

Spoiler

I think i have a hair fetish.

 

[ShinobiFist]

Their blog crashed...

Yup.

 

[BadAss2961]

Looks beautiful. This would add some flair to the game.

 

[xenist]

If you see floaty particles that look out of place and overdone, it's PhysX.

No, it's bad developers.

 

[Alexios]

So, can anyone post the pics for those who were too late to check amd's blog?

Edit: ok, it works now.

Lara's non tressfx hair look crappy/low polygon. I guess they wanted to emphasize the difference/the devs didn't care about it.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Their blog crashed...

Google cached

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...d.com/play/tressfx/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

any videos showing it ?

 

[UrbanRats]

Looking good.
I'd like to see them in motion, though.

Also, http://www.allgamesbeta.com/ has them.

 

[dreamfall]

But I want to see it! Their blog seems to have indeed crashed!

Edit:

Looking good.
I'd like to see them in motion, though.

Also, http://www.allgamesbeta.com/ has them.

Thank you Urban! Individual strands blowing in the wind!

 

[Jb]

Holy shit does this look nice. I'd love for it to become a standard for next gen 3rd person games.

 

[BattleMoose87]

Any chance of this working on Nvidia GPUs?

 

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Any chance of this working on Nvidia GPUs?

Yes, it uses DirectCompute (this should probably be in the OP at this point)

 

[M3d10n]

Any chance of this working on Nvidia GPUs?

It's written using DirectCompute, which is cross-platform. Should work even on Intel GPUs.

 

[BattleMoose87]

It's written using DirectCompute, which is cross-platform. Should work even on Intel GPUs.

Would it be more optimised for AMD or would it using Direct Compute make it a decent performing piece of tech on most capable hardware? Physx really adds to the atmosphere of some games (Batman Arkham series) but by being locked down to Nvidia only hardware it prevents itself from ever being used seriously.

 

[Perkel]

fuck blog crashed. That is what you get when you don't release video on youtube

 

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Would it be more optimised for AMD or would it using Direct Compute make it a decent performing piece of tech on most capable hardware? Physx really adds to the atmosphere of some games (Batman Arkham series) but by being locked down to Nvidia only hardware it prevents itself from ever being used seriously.

DirectCompute is a DirectX API, so it shouldn't really make a difference.

 

[commissar]

Being cross platform is fucking awesome.
Good stuff AMD :]


Even if I only have a mobile ati card...

 

[M3d10n]

DirectCompute is a DirectX API, so it shouldn't really make a difference.

There's always the possibility of code that favors the strengths of a specific card/line over another's or that touches upon not-often-used areas/features which require new drivers to perform at full capacity.

 

[Gbraga]

Waaait a minute, I can run this on my NVidia card??? DAYUMMM

Thank you based AMD! Can't wait for that hair porn

 

[Tenck]

Ever since I played Alice Madness Returns, I've wanted hair in games to be more realistic. Will support SE with a purchase if this isn't locked to AMD card, which should be unlikely.

 

[DieH@rd]

Ever since I played Alice Madness Returns, I've wanted hair in games to be more realistic. Will support Ubisoft with a purchase if this isn't locked to AMD card, which should be unlikely.

Tomb Raider is made by Crystal Dynamics, which is owned by Eidos, which is owned by Square Enix, and lately S-E is giving us awesome PC ports.

 

[Gbraga]

Ever since I played Alice Madness Returns, I've wanted hair in games to be more realistic. Will support Ubisoft with a purchase if this isn't locked to AMD card, which should be unlikely.

Is this some kind of joke around here like the protect one or the game is THAT generic?

 

[vio]

So still no video huh? Hair looks perfectly clean, but maybe it is just because they want to show off the tech in ...best light.

 

[derFeef]

I like that shot.

 

[Seance]

Next gen here is hair.

.

 

[DreadPirateRoberts]

There's always the possibility of code that favors the strengths of a specific card/line over another's or that touches upon not-often-used areas/features which require new drivers to perform at full capacity.

Yeah no, i imagine AMD drivers will be better optimized at first, but It's probably not not going to be a huge difference in frame rate, especially after Nvidia optimizes their drivers for the effect.

Creating a new industry standard is probably a better way of getting rid of the PhysX problem than trying to gimp the performance on other cards and hoping devs choose them over Nvidia.

 

[-SD-]

Next gen hair is here.

Next gen is finally hair.

Seriously, though, the pics are mighty impressive.

 

[Angelus Errare]

I'm still trying to figure out why those chose to release screenshots but no video. =\

 

[derFeef]

I'm still trying to figure out why those chose to release screenshots but no video. =\

PC version still embargoed? Or it's actually not ready yet.

 

[Dragon1893]

Looks great. It's amazing how Alice Madness Returns still easily holds the title for best hair, you look at characters in recent games and it really feels like everything else evolved while hair animation is stuck in time. Finally someone fixed that.

 

[Angelus Errare]

PC version still embargoed? Or it's actually not ready yet.

Not like I want a walk through video, they could release some high quality gifs. It has to be somewhat ready in order for them to get screengrabs for this pictures. I'm not asking for much D:

 

[vio]

Next gen hair is here.

eh...